The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

On the other hand, there is the opposing tendency of the brain to want to make connections between everything.

On the one hand, the mind tends to move away from this interconnectedness and focus instead on the distinctions between things, taking objects out of their contexts and analyzing them as separate entities.

To counteract this, in our spare time we should not simply look for entertainment and distractions. We should take up hobbies—a game, a musical instrument, a foreign language—that bring pleasure but also offer us the chance to strengthen our memory capacities and the flexibility of our brain.

The problem that technology presents us is that it increases the amount of information at our disposal, but slowly degrades the power of our memory to retain it.

To go along with this self-control, we must do whatever we can to cultivate a greater memory capacity—

We must learn how to quiet the anxiety we feel whenever we are confronted with anything that seems complex or chaotic.

over time they learn to notice these rapid ideas that come to them. They learn to act on them and verify their validity.

He did not simply read books—he took them apart, rigorously analyzed them, and learned valuable lessons to apply to his own life.